No big news in either minor classifications after Wednesday's first "hilly" stage, as both leaders (Australian David Arnold in the "Regularidad" and American James Bass in the KOM realm) held onto the top spot, with the same advantage over their closest challengers as 24 hrs before. While the Aussie had a good stage score of 7 (courtesy of Zabel and O'Grady as usual), and so did Sara Selle and Steve Wootton, all of them putting a few more points into the remainder of the field, "Greasy Grimey Gopher Guts" earned just one stage point (from Floyd Landis, now down to third in the Vuelta's Mountains Ranking), but that's the same stage score Mr. Bass' 11 nearest pursuers -that might be down to 10 in case Galen is excluded from the game- had.